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UnitedHealth Group: which MBA programs it recruits from

UnitedHealth Group (Health Care) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 16 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits broadly, at most of the top programs.

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 27 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 108 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).

Also listed separately: Episource.

Schools also print it as: Optum.

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Schools whose employer lists name UnitedHealth Group

SchoolListed for the Class ofThe school’s full listIn the report
Harvard HBS2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Pennsylvania Wharton2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Chicago Booth2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Northwestern Kellogg2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
MIT Sloan2023full employer listjobs and pay
Berkeley Haas2024full employer listjobs and pay
Yale SOM2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Duke Fuqua2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Michigan Ross2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UVA Darden2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UCLA Anderson2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
UNC Kenan-Flagler2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Indiana Kelley2023, 2024full employer listjobs and pay
Vanderbilt Owen2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Emory Goizueta2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay
Minnesota Carlson2023, 2024, 2025full employer listjobs and pay

Not on the list at

Columbia CBS, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Rice Jones. A gap means the school did not print the name for those classes, which is not proof it never hires there: some schools publish only companies that hired several graduates, and a few publish a hand-picked selection. The school pages say how each list was built.

Other health care employers with wide reach

Johnson & Johnson (21) · Pfizer (17) · DaVita (16) · Eli Lilly (16) · Amgen (13) · Medtronic (13) · Abbott (11) · Bristol-Myers Squibb (11)

Questions about UnitedHealth Group

Which MBA programs does UnitedHealth Group recruit from?

UnitedHealth Group is named on the published employer lists of 16 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross and UVA Darden and 6 more.

Does UnitedHealth Group hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?

Harvard HBS lists UnitedHealth Group as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.

Does UnitedHealth Group sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?

Its H-1B record: moderate sponsor. USCIS approved 27 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 108 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial). The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.

How do I get to UnitedHealth Group from a school that doesn't list it?

Most hiring at firms like this comes through networking rather than on-campus recruiting, and the schools that do list it are where that network is densest. Build your school list around the programs that name your target employers, and say so in your applications. The report's How to choose schools section explains how.